THE RUSSIAN COLONIZATION AS THE BASISOF THE SHORETHNOS

Abstract

The paper identifies the changes in the administrative structure and social organization of the Kuznetsk Tatars – Shors in the 18th – 20thcenturies as a result of military-administrative and economic colonization of the UpperPritomye by the Russian authorities. The result of this colonization was the formation of the nucleus of the future ethnic group – the Kuznetsk Tatars-Shors, which has evolved from ethnolocal groups of different origins related to the neighboring Sagayans-Khakasses, Northern Altaians (the Kumandy and the Chelkans) and Achkeshtyms-Teleuts. The paper reveals for the first time the formation of ethnic feature the Shors in terms of nation-building in the Soviet period. At that very period in history of the MounrainShoriya national district, the modern ethnic boundaries theShor ethnic groups were finally settled, in terms of their dispersalin the south of Kuzbassin large cities (most Shor families) and in remote villages inTashtagolskyand Mezhdurechenskiydistricts of Kemerovo region.

Keywords

• shors
• kuznetsk tatars
• colonization
• ethnicity
• national processes